{"id":790,"date":"2017-07-09T19:33:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T23:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/edt222-2017\/?p=790"},"modified":"2018-05-24T22:12:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T02:12:46","slug":"project-based-learningcreating-a-coat-of-arms-coldiron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/edt222-2017\/2017\/07\/project-based-learningcreating-a-coat-of-arms-coldiron\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Based Learning\/Creating a Coat of Arms-Coldiron"},"content":{"rendered":"

Project Based Learning\/Creating a Coat of Arms 5th grade<\/strong><\/p>\n

Project Outline:<\/strong> This project will allow students to conduct research, use team work, problem solve, and use their creativity to learn about their families and develop a family identity. Students will learn about and work with their family to develop a coat of arms. They will identify meanings of different symbols, colors, and animals to create an image to represent their family. They will also be asked to distill that information into a family motto. If they already have a family motto that will have the option to create a new one. A letter will be sent home to parents explaining the assignment and will allow student with a fragile background to obtain from the family history potion of the lesson.\u00a0 For students whose parents chose for them to be exempt will still create a coat of arms with their family influence.<\/p>\n

Standards:<\/strong><\/p>\n

3PE<\/strong> Investigate the role of cultural objects in our everyday environment.<\/p>\n

4PR<\/strong> Select and use the elements and principles of art and design to<\/p>\n

communicate understanding of an interdisciplinary concept.<\/p>\n

3RE<\/strong> Explain the reasons and value of documenting and preserving works of art and art<\/p>\n

objects in some cultures<\/p>\n

Timing: <\/strong>This project is designed to be worked on throughout the first quarter of the year. Students will work on the project during class time once every two weeks. Parts of the assignment will be worked on at home, such as family history research and family values. Students will learn about symbolism, heraldry, and the meanings of color during art class. They will finish their full-size coat of arms in art class for the last full week of the quarter, presenting their work at the family night at the end of October.<\/p>\n

Materials: <\/strong>Poster board, glue, tempera paint, paint brushes, black permanent maker, water cups, smocks, rulers, scissors, colored construction paper, shield templets\/examples, print offs of different animals, and symbols, information packet for parents, large scale examples of real coat of arms, internet access, History of Brown County, 1883.<\/p>\n

\"\"

Coat of Arms Outline<\/p><\/div>\n

Challenging Problem or Question<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who are you?<\/p>\n

Where does your family come from?<\/p>\n

What questions do you have about your family\u2019s history?<\/p>\n

What is a coat of arms, (arms) and why is it important?<\/p>\n

Sustained Inquiry<\/strong><\/p>\n

Students are to investigate the history of their family; who where their grandparents, their great grandparents, their family\u2019s country of origin, and to find out what values their family holds above all else. Students will create a list of interview questions, to help answer the questions they have about their own family. They will need to conduct additional research into what their ancestors did, where they lived, and what their family does now.<\/p>\n

Authenticity<\/strong><\/p>\n

Students will be asked to only include factual information in the written portion of their project because it will be submitted to the Brown County Historical Society as part of their genealogical records department.\u00a0 Many of the students living in the district have families that have been in Brown county for over one hundred years. Students will have access to the History of Brown County, Ohio 1883. A book commissioned by the Library of Congress to record the history of Brown County and keep a Genealogical record. In addition, students are encouraged to find family photos that link their family to the region. These photos will be added to the archive for the Brown County Historical Society.<\/p>\n

\"\"

Heraldry Manuscript, Shield of Arms<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

Queen Elizabeth’s Coat of Arms<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"

Porsche Coat of Arms<\/p><\/div>\n

Student Voice & Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Students will choose colors, animals, and symbols to represent their family in creating a coat of arms. They will need to discover the meanings of each part they chose to include and explain why they have chosen such things in their art journal.\u00a0 Using the answers from their interview they will develop what values are important to them and their family. They will use this to create the imagery to match those values by drawing mockup of their coat of arms.<\/p>\n

What is a Coat of Arms?<\/strong><\/p>\n